Re: LDAP for Staff Verification and Patron Lookup

[Alma Garcia <almag at mills dot edu>]

We currently have LDAP set up for course intranet pages on a campus 
server. We would be more interested in III's product if we could 
authenticate for e-reserves access in addition to the items you have 
mentioned below.

Alma
Byron C. Mayes wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> My understanding of the documentation is that LDAP (Light Directory Access
> Protocol) can only be used for "External Patron Verification," that is, access
> to My Millennium and other WebOPAC features. Nice, but very limited in scope,
> and since it's an additional module to purchase, it might not be very useful for
> our purposes here at Temple.
>
> What *would* make it useful here would be the ability to use LDAP for staff
> login (to Millennium functions) and for patron lookup at a service point. Can
> the current LDAP functionality be used in this manner, or is my conclusion above
> accurate?
>
> I'm asking Innovative as well, but would like to know if anyone here is already
> doing this.
>
> Thanks,
> Byron
>  

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